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Feature Test Spec: Mail and News Component

Mail and News Component: Cookies

Written by Stephen Donner

Overview

A cookie is information that a website puts on your hard disk so that it can remember something about you at a later time. (More technically, it is information for future use that is stored by the server on the client side of a client/server communication.)

Feature implementation bug: bug 22994

GENERAL UI

1. Migrate from a 4.x profile.

  • Verify that the pref "Disable cookies in Mail & Newsgroups" is checked.

2. Create a new profile.

  • Verify that the pref "Disable cookies in Mail & Newsgroups" is checked.

3. When "Disable Cookies" is checked, the following checkboxes should be disabled:

  • Disable cookies in Mail & Newsgroups
  • Ask me before storing a cookie
  • Limit maximum lifetime of cookies to:
    • (radio button) current session(radio button with field) xx days

4. If any other radio button is checked, all of the following checkboxes/radio buttons become enabled:

  • Disable cookies in Mail & Newsgroups
  • Ask me before storing a cookie
  • Limit maximum lifetime of cookies to:
    • (radio button) current session
    • (radio button with field) xx days

COOKIES DISABLED FOR MAIL & NEWSGROUPS, NO PROMPT

5. Check "Enable all cookies", but also check "Disable cookies in Mail & Newsgroups".

  • Go to Tools | Cookie Manager in Navigator, and select "Manage stored cookies".
  • Under the "Stored cookies" tab, click "Remove All Cookies". Click OK.
  • Create a webpage with this source: 
    <html>
<head>
<body>
This is an image coming from an img src tag
<img src="http://10.169.103.61/scripts/nph-cookie_with_jpg.pl">
</body>
</head>
</html>
  • Load the page and do File | Send Page. By default, we will render the HTML inline, causing the <img src> tag to pull that image with a cookie from the server.
  • Verify after viewing the test message that you don't see under "Site": 10.169.103.61 and under "Cookie Name": name2.

COOKIES ENABLED FOR MAIL & NEWSGROUPS, NO PROMPT

6. Check only "Enable all cookies".

  • Go to Tools | Cookie Manager in Navigator, and select "Manage stored cookies".
  • Under the "Stored cookies" tab, click "Remove All Cookies". Click OK.
  • Create a webpage with this source: 
    <html>
<head>
<body>
This is an image coming from an img src tag
<img src="http://10.169.103.61/scripts/nph-cookie_with_jpg.pl">
</body>
</head>
</html>
  • Load the page and do File | Send Page. By default, we will render the HTML inline, causing the <img src> tag to pull that image with a cookie from the server.
  • Verify after viewing the test message that you see under "Site": 10.169.103.61 and under "Cookie Name": name2.

COOKIES ENABLED FOR MAIL & NEWSGROUPS, WITH PROMPT

7. Check "Enable all cookies" and "Ask me before storing a cookie".

  • Go to Tools | Cookie Manager in Navigator, and select "Manage stored cookies".
  • Under the "Stored cookies" tab, click "Remove All Cookies". Click OK.
  • Create a webpage with this source: 
    <html>
<head>
<body>
This is an image coming from an img src tag
<img src="http://10.169.103.61/scripts/nph-cookie_with_jpg.pl">
</body>
</head>
</html>
  • Load the page and do File | Send Page. By default, we will render the HTML inline, causing the <img src> tag to pull that image with a cookie from the server.
  • Ensure that before you are able to see the image, you get a prompt "The site 10.169.103.61 wants to set a cookie. Do you want to allow it?".
    • Choose "No".
      • Also enable the checkbox "Remember this decision".
        • Verify the image is still rendered, but there isn't a cookie present in Cookie Manager under Site: 10.169.103.61 and Cookie Name: name2.
        • Choose the message with the testcase again. Verify no cookie is set, and you don't get prompted to accept/deny the cookie.
      • Disable the checkbox "Remember this decision".
        • Verify the image is still rendered, but there isn't a cookie present in Cookie Manager under Site: 10.169.103.61 and Cookie Name: name2.
        • Choose the message with the testcase again. Verify you get prompted to accept/deny the cookie.
    • Choose "Yes".
      • Also enable the checkbox "Remember this decision".
        • Verify the image is rendered, and there is a cookie of Site: 10.169.103.61 and Cookie Name: name2 in Cookie Manager.
        • Choose the message with the testcase again. Verify you don't get prompted, and the cookie is set.
      • Disable the checkbox "Remember this decision".
        • Verify the image is rendered and a cookie is present in Cookie Manager under Site: 10.169.103.61 and Cookie Name: name2.
        • Choose the message with the testcase again. Verify you get prompted to accept/deny the cookie.

COOKIES DISABLED FOR MAIL & NEWSGROUPS (ORIGINATING WEB SITE ONLY), WITH PROMPT

8. Check "Enable cookies from the originating web site only" and "Ask me before storing a cookie".

  • Go to Tools | Cookie Manager in Navigator, and select "Manage stored cookies".
  • Under the "Stored cookies" tab, click "Remove All Cookies". Click OK.
  • Create a webpage with this source: 
    <html>
<head>
<body>
This is an image coming from an img src tag
<img src="http://10.169.103.61/scripts/nph-cookie_with_jpg.pl">
</body>
</head>
</html>
  • Load the page and do File | Send Page. By default, we will render the HTML inline, causing the <img src> tag to pull that image with a cookie from the server.
  • Ensure that before you are able to see the image, you get a prompt "The site 10.169.103.61 wants to set a cookie. Do you want to allow it?".
    • Choose "No".
      • Also enable the checkbox "Remember this decision".
        • Verify the image is still rendered, but there isn't a cookie present in Cookie Manager under Site: 10.169.103.61 and Cookie Name: name2.
        • Choose the message with the testcase again. Verify no cookie is set, and you don't get prompted to accept/deny the cookie.
      • Disable the checkbox "Remember this decision".
        • Verify the image is still rendered, but there isn't a cookie present in Cookie Manager under Site: 10.169.103.61 and Cookie Name: name2.
        • Choose the message with the testcase again. Verify you get prompted to accept/deny the cookie.
    • Choose "Yes".
      • Also enable the checkbox "Remember this decision".
      • Verify the image is rendered, and there is a cookie of Site: 10.169.103.61 and Cookie Name: name2 in Cookie Manager.
      • Choose the message with the testcase again. Verify you don't get prompted, and the cookie is set.
    • Disable the checkbox "Remember this decision".
      • Verify the image is rendered and a cookie is present in Cookie Manager under Site: 10.169.103.61 and Cookie Name: name2.
        Choose the message with the testcase again. Verify you get prompted to accept/deny the cookie.